I never write any kind of resolution. Maybe it’s a way to avoid disappointment, maybe it’s because of my low self-esteem that comes out when I have to deal with the things that really matter to me. Not “declaring” anything about what I want to do it’s a first step towards failure. I am, now, certain of the effectiveness of writing down ideas, projects, wishes and resolutions and that’s what I’m going to do here. I prefer to fail to achieve them once I said them out loud than fail with the chance to avoid feeling sorry. I don’t believe in magical solutions or stuff like “stop the famine in the world”, just normal (and hopefully doable) things.

1 – Create a photographic portfolio. I used to think that I didn’t have any photos worth to be in a portfolio but I was wrong. Thanks to the predicaments of professional photographers and my own teachers at the photography course I’m now convinced that I can try. A portfolio is a building stone for every serious photographer. I am very interested in the process of creating a portfolio with my own photos, I also believe that can help me to understand these 19 months of photography behind me and plan for the next ones. I need it, I want it, I’ll do it.

2 – Make my first fashion photo shoot happen. This is one of the things I never did for poor self-esteem. It’s hard to start anything, you end up comparing yourself with the gotha of the photography world. I spent a lot of my time in the recent months studying, reading and learning about the great photographers I admire but I took almost no pictures because of that. I will start somewhere, there’s a lot I have yet to learn but I will start somewhere. The second step will be no less hard maybe but it’ll be already the second one…

3 – Move. Like leave Milan and go somewhere else. I firmly believe that people, in a just world, should not be constrained between borders and should be able to find their own place in the world to live in peace. Even if I kind of like it here and even if Italy it’s the land I call home I want to experience another culture. Maybe it’ll be a waste of time, who knows. I’d like to try, overcoming my usual problems with visa and documents, somehow.

I have other projects, ideas, resolutions and compelling problems to solve but these three are stuck in my mind since a lot of time ago, even years if we consider only the third one.

There’s no better time to start doing something than now.